Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Takaaki Kato, who was summoned by Prince Regent Hirohito and requested to form a Cabinet (TIME, June 16), completed his task and presented the members of his Ministry to the Regent...
...Rentaro Mizuno enjoined the Premier to hold on to office, it was not thought that the Premier would attempt it nor that Elder Statesman Saionji would recommend it. It was stated, however, that the Premier would remain in office until June 4, when the State celebration of Crown Prince Hirohito's wedding* (TIME, April 7) will have been held. Upon this date the Diet assembles and Kiyoura Government is expected to resign. The next Premier is likely to be Viscount Takaaki Kato†, four times Foreign Minister (1900-01, 1906, 1913, 1914-15), former Japanese Ambassador to Britain...
Prince Hichibu, nearly 22, is the greatest favorite of the Japanese after Prince Regent Hirohito. Like his elder brother, he is an ardent democrat, has endeared himself to the people of the "Island Empire of the East" by his simplicity, frankness, unaffected charm...
...significance of the projected visit lies in the fact that only once before in the whole history of Japan has an Emperor's son ever left the shores of Japan to visit a foreign country. That was when Crown Prince Hirohito (now Regent) made his world tour...
...Hirohito, Prince Regent of Japan, celebrated his marriage to the Princess Nagako (TIME, Feb. 4) by starting a mustache. Court circles politely refer to it as the Regent's mustache, but so far it consists of only a few silky hairs. Their intense blackness makes them almost visible and the imperial barber is eager for the moment when there will be sufficient foundation for an application...